Is it I? A book for every man.

by Horatio Robinson Storer

IS IT I?

A BOOK FOR EVERY MAN.

A COMPANION TO

WHY NOT?

A Book for Every Woman.

BY

Prof. HORATIO ROBINSON STORER, M.D.,

OF BOSTON,

Vice-President of the American Medical Association.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. Terence.

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD.

1868.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by
LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
4 Spring Lane.

TO
DR. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET,
OF NEW YORK,
Surgeon to the State Woman’s Hospital;
ONE OF THE ONLY TWO PURELY UTERINE SPECIALISTS
AS YET PRACTISING IN AMERICA;[1]
The Pupil and Successor of Marion Sims,
AND HIMSELF, AS AN OPERATOR, HIS GREAT MASTER’S
MORE THAN EQUAL.

My dear Dr. Emmet:

The little “Why Not?” of the American Medical Association is having so large a sale that my publishers have besought me to write a book for men, to cover ground that I had left untouched, relating to the causation and prevention of various forms of uterine disease. Many physicians and many lady patients have desired me to do the same thing, and I have yielded to their advice. Our friend Dr. Brown-Séquard permitted me to dedicate the second edition of the former book to himself, kindly saying that he deemed it something more than a compliment. At the outset I was uncertain of success, and so the first edition went without sponsor.

In allowing me, in the case of the book now in press, thus to manifest my personal esteem for yourself, and my appreciation of your many contributions to the advancement of our science, you will become my coadjutor in this attempt to preserve women from bodily and mental anguish, from disease and from crime.

Yours, ever sincerely,

Horatio R. Storer.

Boston, June 3, 1867.